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020			_a9781250281845 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1250281849 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1263339774
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092			_a363.75 _bC188
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aCampbell, Hayley, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAll the living and the dead : _bfrom embalmers to executioners, an exploration of the people who have made death their life's work / _cHayley Campbell.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_a268 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) index.
505	0		_aThe edge of mortality: Funeral director -- The gift: Director of anatomical services -- Click your fingers and they turn to stone: Death mask sculptor -- Limbo: Disaster victim identification -- The horror: Crime scene cleaner -- Dining with the executioner: Executioner -- None of this is forever: Embalmer -- Love and terror: Anatomical pathology technologist -- Tough mother: Bereavement midwife -- Earth to earth: Gravedigger -- The devil's coachman: Crematorium operator -- The hopeful dead: Cryonics institute.
520			_a"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with these people who see death every day, she asks: Why would someone choose this kind of life? Does it change you as a person? And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? A dazzling work of cultural criticism, All the Living and the Dead weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aDeath care industry.
650		0	_aDeath _xEconomic aspects. _9235161
650		0	_aDeath _xPsychological aspects. _99133
650		0	_aFuneral rites and ceremonies. _9131045
655		7	_aCreative nonfiction. _2lcgft _9297933
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